CORONELLI, Vincenzo Maria.
[A pair of rare 17th century globe gores showing Australia][Two gore sheets from an 47cm diameter terrestrial globe, showing central and eastern Australia, dedicated to William III.]Venice, 1697. Two plates, each (at most) 125 x 335mm. Faint double image.Two globe gores, designed to be pasted onto a globe 46cm (18") in diameter. The left sheet shows central Australia with a vignette of natives hunting whales with spears; the right sheet show western Carpentaria and Tasmania, with the coast of New South Wales left blank, being unknown to Europeans for another 70 years. A wreath contains a dedication to William III, king of Great Britain, dated 1696. The sheets were published in Coronelli's very scarce 'Libro dei Globi', a collection of gore sheets of globes of different sizes.
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£3,250.00
($4,170 • €3,650 rates)

COOK, Captain James.
[The first published chart of the east coast of Australia]A Chart of New South Wales or the East Coast of New Holland, Discovered and Explored by Lieutenant J.Cook, Commander of his Majesty's Bark Endeavour, in the Year MDCCLXX.London: Strahan & Cadell, 1773. Coloured. 375 x 800mm. Original binding folds flattened.Important sea chart depicting Cook's discoveries on the east coast of Australia, engraved by W.Whitchurch for Hawkesworth's important work 'An Account of the Voyages.. For making Discoveries in the Southern Hemisphere'. After observing the Transit of Venus from Tahiti, Cook's brief was to search for the 'Terra Australis Incognita'. Sailing west he accurately mapped New Zealand for the first time, then moved north, discovering the east coast of Australia. Orientated with north to the right, the chart shows Cook's route from Cape Howe north to Cape York. However, having already run aground once, Cook sailed outside the dangerous reefs and so the coast between Cape Flattery and Cape Weymouth was not mapped. These reefs and islands he called 'The Labyrinth'
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£1,850.00
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STUBBS, George.
[The illustration that introduced the Kangaroo to the British public]No. 20. [An animal found on the coast of New Holland called Kanguroo.]London: Strahan and Cadell, 1773. 230 x 270mm. Trimmed to plate at bottomThe first British illustration of a kangaroo, published in Hawkesworth's 'An Account of the Voyages... For making Discoveries in the Southern Hemisphere', which contained the official account of Captain Cook's visit to Australia and New Zealand on his first circumnavigation. The plate only has a plate number, so the title, as above, comes from the index. However the original illustration was not drawn in Australia but in London, by Britain's foremost animal painter, George Stubbs (1724-1806). It is believed that it was Sir Joseph Banks (1743-1820), the naturalist on Cook's expedition whose diary entry of 12 July 1770 first noted the 'kanguru', who commissioned Stubbs to paint a kangaroo and a dingo. As no live specimen of the kangaroo had been brought to England, Stubbs worked from a preserved skin, which he inflated to get an idea of its body shape. The paintings were exhibited at the Royal Society in early 1773, but only the kangaroo was engraved for Hawkesworth. In 2013 the Stubbs oils of both the kangaroo and dingo were subject to a temporary export ban, as important works of 'Cultural Interest' in Britain. After a fund-raising campaign the National Maritime Museum purchased the paintings for the nation.See https://www.rmg.co.uk/work-services/news-press/press-release/stubbss-kangaroo-and-dingo-paintings-saved-nation
[Ref: 17107]
£750.00
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COOK, Captain James.
[Cook's map of New South Wales]Carte de la N.le Galles Merid.le ou de Côte Orientale del N.le Hollande Découverte et visitée par le Lieutenant J.Cook Commandant de L'Endeavour, Vaisseau de sa Majesté 1770.Paris, Saillant et Nyon & Panckouke, 1774. Coloured. 375 x 785mm. Minor restoration to binding folds.A French edition of the first published map of the east coast of Australia, engraved by Bénard for the Amsterdam edition of Hawkesworth's important work 'An Account of the Voyages for making Discoveries in the Southern Hemisphere', first published 1773. After observing the Transit of Venus from Tahiti, Cook's brief was to search for the 'Terra Australis Incognita'. Sailing west he accurately mapped New Zealand for the first time, then moved north, discovering the east coast of Australia. Orientated with north to the right, the chart shows Captain Cook's route from Cape Howe north to Cape York. However, having already run aground once, Cook sailed outside the dangerous reefs and so the coast between Cape Flattery and Cape Weymouth was not mapped.
[Ref: 12480]
£600.00
($770 • €674 rates)

FURNEAUX, Tobias.
[The earliest British chart of Tasmania]Sketch of Van Diemen Land, Explored by Capt.n Furneaux, in March 1773.London: Strahan & Cadell, 1777. 240 x 160mm.The east and south coasts of Tasmania as mapped by Captain Tobias Furneaux, who, as captain of HMS Adventure, accompanied Cook on his Second Voyage around the world. Between February and May 1773 Furneaux was separated from Cook, during which time he visited Tasmania, sketching this chart, the earliest English chart of the island. Many of the names he created still survive and the Furneaux Group of islands in Banks Strait are named after him. After reuniting with Cook the ships were again separated off New Zealand and the Adventure returned to England, with Omai as passanger. Because of his earlier service with Samuel Wallis, Furneaux was the first man to circumnavigate the world in both directions.
[Ref: 17098]
£360.00
($462 • €404 rates)

HODGES, William.
[Portrait of a Maori, from Cook's Second Voyage]Man of New Zealand.London: Strahan and Cadell, 1777. 260 x 215mm. Narrow margins left and bottom.A portrait of a Maori with tatoos, sketched during Cook's second visit to New Zealand, 1773. Rangituanui (Tuanui), the principal chief of Ngati Hikatoa, is shown with feathers in his hair, albatross feather earrings, moko and a bone toggle fastening his cloak. He was given two sows and two boars by Cook's crew, from which the wild pigs known as 'Captain Cookers' are descended. This plate was engraved by Jean Baptiste Michel after a red chalk drawing by Hodges (now in the National Library of Australia) and published in 'A Voyage towards the South Pole', the offiical account of Cook's Second Voyage. On this expedition (1772-5) he circumnavigated the world as far south as he could, attempting to locate any 'Terra Australis Incognita'.
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£275.00
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COOK, Captain James.
[Tasmania]Plan of Adventure Bay on Van Diemens Land.Dublin: The United Company of Booksellers, c.1784, 270 x 220mmA chart of Adventure Bay, Tasmania, divided into two with a detailed coastal profile in the upper register. Cook circumnavigated Tasmania and much of the Australian Coast in April 1770, at this time he was also the first European to observe the native Aboriginals. The maps from a rare Irish pirate edition of the account of his first voyage. The United Company of Booksellers was a loose conglomeration of publishers. The National Library of Canada states the 1784 Dublin edition was published by H.Chamberlaine and 26 others!
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£100.00
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COOK, Captain James.
[Tasmania]Chart of Van Diemens Land.Dublin: The United Company of Booksellers, c.1784, 230 x 350mmA chart of part of the coast of Tasmania, with three coastal profiles, marking the route taken by Cook in January 1777, during his Third Voyage. The United Company of Booksellers was a loose conglomeration of publishers. The National Library of Canada states the 1784 Dublin edition was published by H.Chamberlaine and 26 others!
[Ref: 7873]
£140.00
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